I have a new best friend. This friend promises to keep me out of messes and awful tangles. This friend endeavors to keep me in line. Now, our friendship is new, so I still have to figure out exactly well we work together, but I am definitely smitten. Who is this friend? It’s my Yarn… Continue reading A Yarn Miracle
I heard the statement lately (somewhere on the Internet, source unverified) that the expected pandemic baby boom had not happened. That’s not what I see from my point of view. In my small homeschool community group I have five pregnant mamas! Five! Well, currently four as the first of the babies has already arrived. We… Continue reading Baby Boom (Part 1)
There is a lot of promise in a yarn name. If the yarn has “soft” it’s name, it had better be soft. If it has “quick” in it’s name, it better work up quickly. I picked up some Lion Brand Mandala Thick and Quick yarn in the Labyrinth colorway. I have fallen in love with… Continue reading Thick and Quick?
The Lion Brand I Wanna Make a Blankie yarn is so soft and squishy I want to carpet my whole house in it and make yarn angels on the floor. It seriously is like a big, warm hug. I had so much fun making the Squishy Square Baby Blankie that I decided to take my… Continue reading Squishy Round Baby Blankie (Free Pattern)
Lion Brand came out with a new yarn in a cake bigger than most people’s heads. I Wanna Make A Blankie yarn is made with the idea that one cake of yarn is all it takes to make a baby blanket. The yarn comes with one knit and one crochet pattern on the label. Easy… Continue reading Squishy Square Baby Blankie (Free Pattern)
I feel like my posts have been few and far between lately. But that doesn’t mean I haven’t been crocheting. A day without crochet hook in hand is very rare. I’ve still been cranking out baby blankets, hoarding yarn, and planning out my next projects. Today I finished a beautiful blanket from the Lunar Crossings… Continue reading Crocheting Into Fall
One of the basic rules of business is to sell high, buy low. I haven’t actually figured out how to make money in my crochet business yet, but I am at least aware of the basic principles. The less my yarn costs, the more potential I have to make a profit. If you only crochet… Continue reading The $5 Baby Blanket
By now you know that I have a problem with yarn—I buy it. Lots of it. Recently, I visited one of my favorite yarn sites (probably after getting an email)—Herrschners—where they were having a sale on bulk yarns. I picked a color I liked and bought a bag of 10 skeins of Cloudsoft yarn. I’ve… Continue reading Cloudsoft Spiral
In the days of gift registries and gift cards, it is sometimes seen as rude to give something different. I, of course, don’t agree. And neither will the recipient of this blanket when they see how perfect it is for their child. This is the Personalized Baby Blocks Blanket. The pattern includes 28 different block… Continue reading A Special Gift for Baby
I have been working hard on a new pattern based on the Alphabet Blocks pattern (Personalized Baby Blocks Blanket, which will come out early next week). This has caused me to take another look at the Alphabet Blocks Baby Blanket pattern. In the initial pattern, the blocks in the first strip were written with backward… Continue reading Alphabet Blocks Revised
